Control methane now, greenhouse gas expert warns
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 19:03
in Earth & Climate
As the shale gas boom continues, the atmosphere receives more methane, adding to Earth’s greenhouse gas problem. A greenhouse gas expert and ecology and environmental biology professor fears that we may not be many years away from an environmental tipping point – and disaster. “Society needs to wean itself from the addiction to fossil fuels as quickly as possible,” he said. “But to replace some fossil fuels – coal, oil – with another, like natural gas, will not suffice as an approach to take on global warming. Rather, we should embrace the technologies of the 21st century and convert our energy systems to ones that rely on wind, solar and water power.”